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Non-therapeutic circumcision of children is neither diagnosis nor treatment, so the statement is saying means that parents do ''not'' authority have right to consent to non-therapeutic circumcision of children. This has caused problems for future advocates of male non-therapeutic circumcision at the AAP, so they have adopted a work-around policy. Future statements regarding male non-therapeutic circumcision resorted to citing a non-germane statement on the medical ethics of sick and dying children. <ref>{{REFjournal |last=Fleischman |first= |init=AL |author-link= |last2=Nolan |first2= |init2=K |author2-link= |last3=Dubler |first3= |init3=NN |author3-link= |etal=yes |title=Caring for gravely ill children |trans-title= |language= |journal=Pediatrics |location= |date=1994-10 |volume=94 |issue= |article= |page= |pages=433-9 |url=https://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/94/4/433.long |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=7936849 |pubmedCID= |DOI= |accessdate=2021-07-24}}</ref> Non-therapeutic circumcision of children, however, is performed only on healthy children who can withstand the [[pain ]], trauma, and stress of the amputation.